Alloway Creek El Sch

As a roomy elementary campus in Littlestown, Pennsylvania, Alloway Creek El Sch caters to 746 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Littlestown Area SD. Enrollment runs roughly 68% above the state mean of about 443.

Across the 3 schools in Littlestown Area SD (1,691 students total), Alloway Creek El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Alloway Creek El Sch shows that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Adams County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Alloway Creek El Sch lists 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Alloway Creek El Sch higher than the state norm the norm. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Alloway Creek El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.9%; this one delivers 49.4%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Adams County indicate median household income runs about $84,092, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Adams County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,831 students), of which Alloway Creek El Sch is one.

Littlestown SHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Alloway Creek El Sch comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 10%: 828 students in 2018 compared to 746 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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